Kyoko Iwaki is an Associate Professor at University of Antwerp. Her PhD titled Nuclear Catastrophe and Theatre in Tokyo, 1945-2016, examined theatre’s evolution post-Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Fukushima. This research led to multiple publications, including “The Politics of the Senses: Takayama Akira’s Atomized Theatre after Fukushima” in Fukushima and the Arts: Negotiating Nuclear Disaster. Among other publications, she is the co-author of Slow Death: Contemporary Japanese Performance in Times of Suspended Crises.